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V : i " Ours are the plans of fair delightful peaceUnwdrped ty party. rageito.Jivefi-brqtMrs. 3u 3- VOLUME I. ? . J f i . i t RALEIGH, j WEDNESDAY. MABOH 27; 1878. K f 1 it 11 AUAi "r , vrVVJL W JJ VI H i H Lij , 1 JjL-f Willie ' . . t Z - ' . 1 1 - -' " " J ' ' 1 ' "" 1 f ' " 1 m t- ' ' ' ' v t'" ' . . 1 1 ' ' -' ' . ! - "" - ' - ' ' - - " - f i - r-r 8 , . . . . u . . ... - -J . 1 r r 'IP Official Organ of the United States forN. C. THE REGISTER. Weekly-iiglQ copy,;one year, f m- - i : 160 100 50 100 3ix montli3, - three mouths, dabs of twenty, ofa6 year, eacfej, - Iavariably in advance. Postage paid at tnis onica idrertisements Inserted; at the regular rates, Address, - : W..M. BROWK, r . Publisher and Propriefdr. EDUCATIONAL MEETING IN WIL M1NGTON. h t - -1 , " a lkctcke on the educational and ma ! temal; advancement, of the colore ' people by james h 'ha-rbis, president OF THE STAT3 EDUCATIONAL EXECnriYE ' I COMMITTEE OF' NOKTH .CAROUNA. MABCa I .1 '- ? .. 1- ' v ' f I 4 i i. 1: : ; - J lo me JMiwryme neguier . - jPursuant to anrwuncemenfc large an dience assembled &t the' Court Hou and at 8 o'clock, the plan: of! organization adopted by the late Convention having beeSread, a Chairman and Secretary,aPl i , .t . . o ' r x I pointed tor the meo mg, ireo..VV. rrice, Jr., and Gco. X.; MabSon brieflv stated -.the . j m .i.u' . j ;V Ui" , I e oujeci oi inemeeimg anu me posiuu. occupied'uby the Hon. James . H. Harris, wliora the late Educational Convention has made he Execntire head of the or ganization of the State for the Ednca tional and materia . advancement anu elevation of the colored race, &c On motion a committee, was appointed to wait upon Mr. Harris and invite hiui U the stand. The committee retired and ii. a short while returned with Mr. Harris who being introduced to. the audience, launched out in one of , his happiest ami I most brilliant efforts of argumentative discussion relative to the wants and ne cessities of the colored race, . AVe would not do Mi. Harris the injns tice of 'attempting to follow his argu ment, which for an honr and a quartet kept his audience bound in a spell of j tht most profound interest which was brokei St intervals by waves of applause, whicl. ever arid anon rolled through the audience as he with his remarkable extemporlsinj:' j . ' . m s . I necessities of the colored, race, relative t their material ad vahcemen t or by. . flashes of his? inexhaustible witjj threw Jiit audience into convulsions of laughter. The lecturer speaks without manuscript, displays a thorough knowledge of - tin wants and necessities of his race. Mr. Harris in his remarks adverted to his visit to Wilmington nine years ago as thA aHvnpatfi nf tho civil and Political . . . wA-fr' "r equality of his race with all American citizens, having dedicated his UfO to the cause of elevating his ,race, heJias labor- ed incessantly in seasbn land out of seasbtf for the inculcation of those ideas-whicK . tend to elevate his people to a higher standard of moral and intellectual devel opment , i4 i ? - The late . Educational Convention which assembled in Baleigrm5 October, among other things adopted, a plan of or-: era n ration Ktr. xvhinh it i nmnoftfiri to col mittee. who would thus be enabled to comprehend the condition of the colored peoule in the several localities and Dresent . .... i Nat Legislatures and ask the adoption of such measures as would giye the desired "relief, He said he was conscious of the responsi bility which was placed uponjiim by the late (Ufinrpntinn. in imrwiinnr rlnon him the duties of supervising 'these cdricattdri- al organizations and lecturing his people on bo vital and important subjects bul as he never shrinks from1 an vresrionRihilitv. ne assumed tho grave and arduoustaskj l'iU8 imDOsed noon him with a will and - . ( . termined to succeed. ' Education, he said, is the foundation 'late a statistical report of ,the condition, of n an age8. nd. just in proportion 'as little grand son of old Mr. Wilder. We phonograph suggested what be calls the has expenqea more tnan mat sum in re- gavea plunge and sank beneath the; wa-, the colored people in evcryaecSntne the laboring class is educated just in the knew Terrell when a slave and have kown airephone, an instrument into which taining possession since. Her West In- te?, being completely, submerged except- State. These statistical reports5 to go up 3sime proportion is the machinery of gov- him since he was liberated and made a words can be articulated; gathering such dian investment will ncerpaj a respecto.- ;ilops.t)f Ae,. smpke-fnnncls.? , iTbis . through a channel vfrom:- the township ernment worked in sympathy and in har freeman, and to his credit can say, for force as to be heard a jiumber oi miles ble interest, and will make no returns at shwas one of the doubtful experimbnts committees to the Stato Executive tCom- monv with i the interest of the ' laborer, honesty and uprightness, he was worthy with great distinctness. .The airephone all unless an entirety different plan of' de- honr of - tho necessities, of uthe j'war, and uetermmation to rjerform. iaithitillv hia I ProoHmanV iS Hankifrand. the grandest to the Uonstitntion:-7rocArt Alount Mail. Cortes went m a bodv Coconcrratnlatp fhp I tot frtrtV n1oo i flhorlnetrm hnrhnf rlnr. 1 JJEAD 1 part 6f tlie jdutics of ?t his great- and im-land most high-handed .piece of robbery ( . ' . ... -V f Kirigd Queen on tji'4 Happy event. .t'Tt I ins th wriodof its .blotikado-" was '"that of I lianged.n' portant undertakincr. relvinff noon God I vpr nracticed nnon anicrnorant and heln-t Suicide. Mrs. Francis Heathcock: is announced .that-the Cuban central com I Vi l?pnV'nk'-ttvnfrOTcmrn Caroliria!.'- or his guidarce and support he was de- legs people by their professed friends; t wife of William Heathcock, living in the tiiittec. the executive, the chiefs, and the Fort Sumter on the afternoon of Ann! I thi uFuu wmcn xne, enperstructuro oi luai-iaey-werw ciuzeuui wuuirjri iv er turuai. wnu a raaur. me veruici ox cspam to aeciao 'wnetncr. there shall be naval heroes, who wa in command ot : the Uonal existence of his. race must bo.es-"' was hero that their fathers' bones and the tho Coroner's jury-vvas in accordance with merely a temporary snlrensiori of rebel South Aitlantic Squadron, had long medi- abhshed, and every energy' should Velex- ashes of their. ancestorarepose; awaiting the facts. :; The deceased was- about '43 lious hostilities or perrrjanent peace. She tated an assault upon Sumter, and only ercisedin the acquirement of those quali- the-breat final day ; when" the Creator years of &ge.Hill$boro Recorder haslearned a costly lesson, and one that awaited the arrival of the iron 'clad vessels - ! ' ' ; , .. f,:;., ' ..- . j. ... -f , ,A- .V i . i -.. " ,:.,;.-!........., f I ' ficatios that are bo f cesential to the re- sponsile duties -of. citizenship.. He alJ ludod to a memorial to Gongress which as being extensively- circulated jthrpngh the Douiu asKing inai me proceeus irom me sales of certain public lands; (e appropri- aieu vo cuueaioiiai purpos, txc. auu suggested that i tlie colored race , Bhould interest themselves in such matters and be fiati&fipd Hint ' thpiV riw fthnnlrl nr just pioportioa of tlicC benefits; thus asked fnr i . ; v Alluding to the cond ian government in their ation against ' colored contra in Brazil ed outrage ed by every newspaper in the country, had this discrimiation been nTade against the German and Irish or any othfer class of o'ur fellow-citizens excepi the negroes1 of A mppifji. - --. , . ' ' . '.'- . s He claims for his ratio a renre'sentation I , . " : , f Ar 1 t for the constructions off Railroads; ing blank forms which! he had prepared, ougnt to supplant those Driuie ana worm- have been rare and short penoasoi justice and , he denounced it as a lpgh hand-1 At the conclusion of Mr. Harris's in- less timbers brought frojp the North, and good treatment, as during the aamin-; which would have been resent- teresting lecture, Geo. L. Mabson, Esq., Orphan's friend: . istration of Las Uasas, beginning m i yu, out oj .1. i tK-'in terest of that race is concerned, I while he j feels grateful for the provisions made for the c0iore(j peopi3 in the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind Asylum, yet he t!inks full justice will not be d6ne until the colored persons are represented upon these boards wjiich have the subervisioh ' F .' imd control of these several departments, Ie take8 me Wonnd ahat no one can en- r i ter B0 fuUy into tne sympathy of the ne- nlly into the sy mpathy of the ne- , .i i. i v tt I ,f roe s condition as the negro hiupif. He Advocates colored officers for colored sol siiersJ colored teachers for colored schools, colored preachers for colored Churches, and declares that his- voice shall not be itill until colored persons are represented upon the Penitentiary Board,1 the Deaf and the Dumb and tho Blind'Board, and ill other institutions where the interest of his race demanded a representation. His r tee he said have been repeatedly denounc e j a8 a non-tax paying part of the com munity. He ridiculed the idea as a blind u 61:. - 1 'La Lal --Vn absurdity, J as. nov .one t, versed, in political economy will attempt to deny the fact that the producer is 'really the tax-payer. The colored people; constitute j tle laboring class of:theSoth-thej are the producers, and hence, they are tax tt . . , .i i .f payers. He pictured the gloomy aspect the country would present if the muscn- , - . - . t. o ti i a lar arm or the negro of the bonth shouia j)ecome paralized ; the hum of busy in dustry would be no longer heard ; the plow would stop in the furrow ; the ring of the I anvil would be hushed; the iron iiorse which now with lightning speed on beds of steel drags long lines of freight from one end of the country to the other would 60on be eaten with rust for the want of use; the steamboats' which ply the waters of our navigable streams and ... vpa5nia nf which dot the I " " r -7 ' L At, f mu lfln1s wonld BOOn become food ior i ro- - i gea worms as they lay tied up to the wbarf ; our work shops wpuld be closed j tlW merchant could lock up nis goods ; tlu lwrpr would close his office : the doctor I wntlid no longer attend his suffering ira- 1 rVerished patSits.! In ifact, pestilencej famine arid death would stalk through the Hence, we find that the laborer is ufter A the "great motive power that im- pela ; the ihachinery that Bfimulates the ele- I : vitolUtr. n mmmnn tiM nd Hp i.nrhnar th a condition and showed rh- d van tas-es which countries that have - . . I na:A th mnut Attpntion' tn the I education tii me various uepurimeuia wiiere ujc rxiuai iscuuru, w mcu was unanimously i i". JL in-u.LLLii - l- .nv- lftft. NosiT or States who have "neglected Ihe educa- tional interest of its citizens. He claim- ed that the education' of the colored peo pie of tho South" should be paramount to I Avorv ntlipr ennfiideration. and i should bo stimnlaled and enconraged by every friend of hntiianity both white and black . Alluding to tlie exit movement, ho ssiid UA tmr neonle did not tako stock in the concern. He was opposed to l on nraAunA that it. wonld- end like' the I 4.." JtvMvvw X ' I . Ho said the colored people should give I no encouragement to any exit movement, would awaken them to the resurrection f It was here that the strong arm and pow-ilmour held the Court and his charge to the erful mnscle of the black man had cut down the forest trees and built the cities. j - i was ixio oiacK man wno duiic ine ran- roads, cut the canals, cultivated the fields uuu uy uio sweaioi. uieir orow me douhi j was built up, and by the help of God they were going to enjoy the fruits of thfef.Ulinr in Vnmmnn itK thpir whitA f olio w-citiiens among Whom their destinr a ' i briefly addressod the meeting commend ing Mr. Harris for his manly effort and the zeal with which he entered upon the discharge of Iris duties, and moved that a vntft nf thnnlf s ho fpnHpiwI liim fnr tbf , ; nlpnfnnt. Ann mstrnritivA; ipftnrfi Ann intp.I !....! j; l.i-iJ -; I 1 f f v,. i . ,i -. adopted. After remarks by other gentlc- men expressive of their appreciation of Mr, H.'s lecture, Geo. i'W. Price, Jr., of fered the following Resolutions which wcr unanimously adopted: Wheras, The late Educational Conven ISJkS of October, 1877, ma among other tainpn. adopt a plan of organization looking to th Educational and Mater tal advancement o me coiorea peopie ana ine improvement o) social, moral and material condition througt wocial, mori me organization ui euucauouai anu siHusii cA1 cll lhrougbont the State ; then fore, nesoivea, mat we nearuiy enaorse tn said plan of organization and pledge ou nearty -operation and support to everx iaudiable effort looking to the ltuprovemru of the condition of the colored people and their elevation and advancement in tht -ealo-of civiliation and tender to Mr. JIarri, President of the Educational Exrcutiv Committee our hearty co-operation in th prosecution of the duties of hin office. That we regard the influences which stini u la ted the spirit of mutual confidence now manifesting itself in this State betw een th two races in the light of a providential dis pensation and Iook. forward with bright an ticipation to the time which we trust U a no vprv distant dav when the educatior. ele vat ion and welfare of i t he i hole peopl without regard to race or complexional dil ferente will be stimulated, encouraged an. supported ry every eon and daughter of tn. La :.inn f ih. organization and discipline of the colored j S .S service of the State as State militia. That we urge upon the State JEducationa Executive Committee to prepare a petitioi or memorial to present at the next sessioi of the Legislature for-the establishment o Knrrnftt (.hriu in snitnhio iwtuu whpn I the interest of the colored people may de I a v A W t9 Dlllh CAVJ-v4fba Condemned to Death. The negro, Robert Jones, charged with the cold blooded murder of Budolph Eaton of this place, on the night of the 25th De cember last, was tried before Judge Hen- ry at Tarboro on Thursday of last week lur-U1U,UC1 auu AVuuu-u"v J iulJ V1 3 wmte and y colorea men ana wns sen" i . . - - , . m . .il tenced to be hanged in larboro on the 8th da of March next . . . . . . Since writing the above we understand that an appeal to the Supreme Court has been granted to Jones. Rocky Mount Mail: Kindly Feeling. Terrell Wilder, a very worthy coiorea man, a iormersiave oi Matthew Wilder,' decased, of Nash, ".died about two weeks ago. He was fru- gal and care taking! and had gathered 6ome propertv wnicn ne gave oj win to a the confidence and respect, ot all good people. Mount Mail. live and lie.' I XM$&Mji!S$& 4WJfcaofts ci'tly Urge to make rrebelHon possible i uniust 1 diserimin- -r." Harris then gave a -detailed state- nut raaPle hickory," red ;bircn ana otner 80 the people revolted and have oeen le- labbrers in their ment of the plan of organization, show- solid beautifnl toods: of the mountains volting at intervals ever since.' Tlich . vniC late -Wednesday afternoon, ; there, had been several convictions for larceny, andjthe wiminal docket was beings rapidly disposed of; and by Friday sight the crim- I inAll and nprhflns civil dockets of Nash will I be cleaned up almost entirelyi - Jridgo .Seymour gives-universal eatisfac- tion! so far as we have heard. It is won- derfnl what a! chansre for the better the it rotation of the Judges has proven to be. So mnch to the credit of the aTnpnHmpntR I , . . " I extreme North West corner of the county; committed suicide on, 9th inst by cutting - JSaas- - Sdpeeiob GotJET.-rJudge . Spy ; Grand Jury .was short; plain and penlible iXjis rulings and general njode of conduct- mg. uie uusiness oi me wuprt guve mmw' 6 satisfaction to all, soj far as wbave yew,u.r"iccA.y uiuuit, juytv Trf-f. i . y roftttt CAtioLUrA FuBOTTUfiEKesrs.'' V DUUm CC O., OI UDUligWlil, are P.btmg up a furniture factory a Old Fort, k - Presitterian. V, . ' 1 k Bowman. It seems that Bowman, thej Kockmgham man: wlio is ip Umltord jail, uimrgcu.wini uiurper, is-iiiaiug .uuiu very Fupuiar prifeui.r. .u jui oajo power of a captain generaly with nnJimit the reports about lawmaking an effertto ed anthority, accountable only to the escape are all false, and e seems to be h z government, whofie principal oc- j j i . .v i deePJ concerned aW us wifes death r ana uis own conamou. ne nu inrenoeu J 1 . LJ Jlt. Tt. 1 'L.J I on the prison walls the date of his wife's barbaronBly murder them when they re nd of his own imprisonment. His . j, . rta? death and tr'al'ift mnrprt to Rannnlnli. ann n tnp I ... - present term or that courtl has been held, lie will not be tried until fiext August.- Jimas FnRnmnfl.-HonJD. M. FnrcheP opened Pasquotank Superior Court at this place on Monday. There is a large uttendanee.' Hisi charge Ito the Grand Jury was the clearest, Rblest, most com- prehensivc and best we live ever heard, It occupied over I two hours in delivery ...a a .ii I a auu tutciuu tup niiuxc gtuuuu ox tutr I . - J L ' - I criminal law. He stated that he purpose- ly made it more exhustiv, than has for- i , .1 L t. u I .i merly been the custom because under the , , . , J n .T law as now understood the Grand Jury must obtain a linctionrom the Judge in open Court Ho callef special atten- tion to perury which, ulnfortunately, i I on the tBcrcasoind Toipon illegal dis- pensiog of intoxicating liquors which i doing so much to undermide and demor- alize society. We repeat,! it was a mosi h- The ptate docket is larger and we learn that there are more cases on the civil docket than for a long time. Court will most probably extend over into next week. Carolinian. The PhonogbXph and) Airephone. Tlie wonders of the phonograph increase. The instrument has been experimented within every way, and there seems little d( fected not the inventor of the phoWraph, has al- ready improved his carbon telephone, in the two previous invention! the diaphragm wa8 susDcnded from the carbon disk bv a i - .. ...... . . . discovered that by bringing the diaphgram into immediate .contact pth the disk; a considerable increase in the force of ar- ticulation is secured, antf that th thick- ness of the. diaphgram cofild be increased at least three times witltout affecting it. iy this metnou jviorauonj gives piace to pressur. We will next! hear that' Mr. Edison has combined th, telephone and phonograph and jvery mujsh increased the useiuiness ve- latter ia iacc, me is, iu buuh, a wujwux wguwui uy-uie ami I . . ii ii of winch captains ot Vessels at sea may converse easily ivhen thfdb or four miles aDart. and by means of IwhicK signal sta- tion officers coup warn Vessels coming on a dangerous coak to keefiioff. 'The aire- Pll0ne ould bej an important adjunct of all signal statioijs, arid cfnld be adapted to all the uses; to whicM fog horns, etc, - are now appUedj 6t InUr-Ocean. ' :. ; i. ; ' ' 5 1 TSE :ENJ. OTABtEItEZ I BlLLl(XN. The Cuban rebellron if not deadi is I its las. craRTi.i' 'Yestedav -f tho finanish . q. . b insurgent to island have . surrendered. It rests with iiibt but that when the invention is per- ""- -jo yi the unequal conrest,. aimougn -BuPpor it will be I applied to many things luu VUMU8 j ny tne ptner monuorr, irouiau, nnu now thonsht of. Professor Edison, , The insurgents have had, generally the New Ironsides, who kept the Jboys m fh em men t treasnrv or more dollars rnas!! diminished the ;tiumber; of J he subjects ylnany lens of thousands, aiid ijafaesoiated,Iand nearly lost to hW: ne'ariy. fifty thousand,, square 'miles 'of valuable territory.- -From the very first,' sue ruled Cuba ;harshly;. By 1534; the native race whicli Welcomed; Columbus,' was nearly exterminated. In 1717, , the; I but otherwise Cuba has been the victim I of nnremittin!? and merciless tvrannv. Tne fault is y the! system of government wi,ich placesfthe island completely in tht- r o- - . , (.nnaong anneais to have been, to plun : , j.. t... ..ki r.sWti. ivi mo Duwjw.vc i . . , The formidable insurrection whicli! nat iust been checked may be said to have fairiv under way in 1869, when ana- got fairly under way in : tional ionverttion was held, and Cespede presiaent, ana ivuesaua comman- 1 ,.!J t i- r : I . der-in-clief ; though slight revolution- ary movements for several years before presaged organized rebellion, v The insur gents in their ten years' war have woii many victories, and are subdued at last after protracted apd desperate resistance, only bv overwhelming numbers. In the : - " ooi1it nsrf rt-f t-Vta cfcnnirla "7"u lthfl Corl tl Km " " ' t 8. a ation that every male person over fifteen - - years of age found away from home with- J ' e jlonse on which ai white flag . . rnred Cubans - had bSn it Meat!?,' The effects of such tactics inevitably re- Met against the side which adopts them, The insurgents were made desperate, and sytnpathy for them was aroused in-other counties which found expression iu sub- stantial assistance. A milder policy has brought the rebellion to a close. The up- rising, though repressed has been success- ful. It has impressed upon Spain the ucvooiijr v. a nws iuuuhouuh au mmm tieatment of the island. Nothing but ruuu miU " speaking, the sympathy of this country in meir urave sinig-ic. ii ""f xuwsi- est in the rebellion has not oeen wnoiiy I . . . . unconnected with considerations as to . . . .. rrom time to time cast more than one covetous glance on the long, narrow, fer- tile island, peccupy ing so Important a po- sition at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico, Even now, though we have no'reason to J be; otherwise than eontent that Spain snouia uom u, we woum maKe tne sirou- gest opposition to its acquisition -by any other great poW. Spain refused our offer of a hnndred milliou dollars for the i ibtauu m x wb. o- uicmucihwi. ' . .r a. i. j . i ' Ti; ' veiupig "w6",. : -"V- sources is employed., vupa, is a luxury . ; .. . . . . . . v r. , I fdr Spanis pride, but a drain on Spanish resources. i She can' be - a profitable po'i session only tons, and her strategic po sition gives her, kas far as tbe;United States is concerned, an additional value.--: Washington Stdrr1 : J ' J." 1, ' Ig N A TA L 'JtEMINISCENClZS. s !: r VBE .rimwrTTES. mspF .thbbu1)i4 . 1 ' ' ' " at N The most marked and extraordinary 1 rtr,fl,V. dnnnm 'fU mn " Bnmmmiriri rbWUUtblf yuiug.r MlUiUKUIJ iV"JgvwHi.w Admiral S. F. Dn Pont. ' of the bravest .and dariri- of our many e should riot' "forget. Oppressive gdv- to assist, as it would- have cei suiciuax over a colony has iramea ner i to navec iauemptea me rvuuvwv . than 4 a nnnarea immon i grim oia ion mai nau bo juug uaiiw,v k noTMtiation6f the island tjad: become sum- fleetVen tji woodeni iipK ''-AtUr . manyK ctujB, urn expected jiron,-clads;were fil'lpocio. to'Ujr their repellant powers I'againat'tlm. heavy gnns mounted npon the different fortBin and around the point oi entrance.' 'y the signal' ,to advance i" y : 1 12 o0 &e .af ternoon.' the "cheese boxesquietlyrfcreptinto lineJike so many snails, feeling their ay, expect ing to, and ' hoping not, to find the numer uus torpedoes1 that strewed the channel were much dreaded by our vessels, as very imceremotiiously knocked things I share -At' 3.30 the' line of attack wnB frtw nlthn' tirlvance beirnn. - The K,t,i, Bwi Hnnhln4nrret- ed ? Jrdiclad; witb a deck-resembling whale's back, and built i as atf experiment, was commanded by Commander i A.C. Rhind, a brilliant and fearless officer, and one wlio did heroic service in JheUuion cause, took the lead s itheilronsides be- i .. .. - t. came unmanageaDie ior ine ume uemg. .i 'THE KEOTtTJK" ,'- was run on in advance "of the" other vcfS sels, and Was forced to take a position under the concentrated fiires of both Forts Sumter and Moultrie at 500 , yards dis tance from Sumter, which 'position slie maintained for over a hclf Iwurmeiving the fire of . both forts. No single vessel ; ever sustained such a shower ' of missiles f as fell upon this ship during the tyne she remained within range. The guns rnoun ted upon the forts were new, of the heaviest calibre and most approved kind, many, being imjpojted from the domainlof Lw frie.nA irftn. H1f and esne .ially adapted tJ the sinking ! of Yankee lM,J ayi?f , . . - , . iron vesse8. Some of the guns threw a "w" e , - t i bolt of from one to two and a half feet in length. The head of tliese " arngedClike . tJio,fa:of a de8iguedespecially ; f or, defence against iron vessels, and if the iron was struck fairly would pierce the armor. during the engagemen the Keokukwas strnck Ninety times in the hull4 and turrets. Nineteen shots pierced her through and ihrough, many below the vater-linc. The1 turrets were pierce(j ;n a number of places; " The for- ward por shutter was shot away,and the I VCSSei lCaKeO 11KR lOe HO OI a pepper UUA4 potnnlptelv riddled. The disabled j-, - j- , rf. , . , , . J Mixpenment oemgunaoie ioKeeFup the Ports'; busy, was -compelled to retire;. i uum mv, t water very iast. one reacneu uwwuiui- f . . i- ? i. .- V . f . age m sraootti wator-aaieijt 'airer; greai i t . .i n .ui; m crew, wno Kepx ine vessel anoai. uuu morning when the sea became verv rough, and the water; poured' into ;her many wounds. ' - r j. A 6IGNAL waa made. f or, assifetance, which was, quick- iy responded to by the steamer yvissanicKon aQd a tug , which;wasin the; vicinity, and ; tho crews and wounded removed, and none too soonias tho lastjboat. waVbuJ;-a.thort oistance irom , tne sinning -iup wuea eue .1. . ' . had' not n? gaiiam,jmu;iyateufaier w 1 thorouglily- tho, navy,. would, .no, doubt, .. , . ... t . J have leon supplied?: with , these, coffins Thev were nat a4anteJ, to withstand even ordinary ordnance jand when, theprojec- tiles thrown, fromthe-powerful rfguns of thoniederates;con8ting of every con- ceivable missile, and from . gnns of extra I relentlessly, into, the j-Kebkuk, - the result . $atisftfed;the.Uqyernment toat expenmcntt were costly ; affairs, theV smokeunnels of me submerged vessel, as,, they, peeped 1 9P Vl yrFiTSy.TOmct,y- ;"- I j'Z i -i , ' ' I f j; 'rft: (-.,, " I 7 f. I i and aiive.--i onn ; Dmim was s I ast ' Friday f at Chester, Sonth . 3 We thought ;. all along-, that : s person wunHT end. onA Exchange. ' I ' I lKo'' 6clrthing;'JohV Sinithf was-hale . and healthy wnue eating nispreajtiasi ar the Orphan? Asyluni; thU " morning, 'fj&at seems to wish ho " was hanged"'; to u big s sweet potato Orphan's FrienaVr : .'.' 1 0- MX T-
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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March 27, 1878, edition 1
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